"The Shimmering Blue Rose" by Yachiyo Katsuno won Second Place - Hand Quilted Quilts (Sponsored by Martelli Enterprises) at AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah 2026.
Artist Statement: "It has been over 20 years since I created the piece titled Sunshine Rose Garden. I spent about three years recreating a quil...
Fawn Acres represents the most recent chapter of Charisma's story. After her last daughter went off to college, her husband said that they were going to move from central Washington. He worked in the farming industry and both he and Charisma wanted to get back to the trees and their roots. They m...
Cheryl has a morning practice where first thing in the morning she gets up and sews. So she just began to make the blocks that would eventually become this quilt, the aptly titled Morning Make 1.
Artist Statement: "What started as demo pieces in my Improv Curves class moved their way into the Mor...
Artist Statement: "Love Letters was inspired by an antique valentine that belonged to my mother-in-law. I found a chipboard alphabet set to use as a stencil for the letters. I was able to find the cotton/metallic gold fabric on the clearance rack, and I used it for the scroll part of the center h...
"Confabulation" by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry won Second Place - Large Quilts - Stationary Machine Quilted at AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah 2026.
Artist Statement: "This design began as a series of pencil drawings of herons and cranes on paper. These were scanned into Corel Draw and arranged into a sin...
Festival De Estrellas by Kumiko Frydl won First Place - Miniatures at AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah 2026. It is hard to appreciate all the work that went into this mini masterpiece from just a couple of photos, but that's why we have quilt judges to view it up close. That's why Kumiko's efforts did not...
Eat Your Veggies is representative of the themes that resonate in Laura's life and mean more to her than anything. Those themes are what she calls the "F's", which are farm, food, and family, and they show up in pretty much every quilt she makes. Eat Your Veggies is all three wrapped up into one,...
Artist Statement: "This is a more contemporary style crazy quilt using a simple grid design. I pieced each block individually, wrapped the piece around a stiff Pellon interfacing, then machine sewed the letters. I quilted the background, then placed and glued the blocks to the background, along w...
Offset is one of the quilts that Audrey made in the summer of 2018 when she was hopeful that she would have a quilt juried into QuiltCon. She entered Offset in with the hopes of it making the cut, and Audrey considers it her first original design. It in turn spawned a series, which Audrey had nev...
The Ocean Is A Woman by Angela Minaudo won First Place - Small Wall Quilts - 1st Entry in an AQS Paducah Quilt Contest at AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah 2026.
Artist Statement: "The ocean is Woman! A source of life, it saw life emerge 3.5 billion years ago and continues to nourish the Earth. I have disc...
Of A Feather by Louise Thibaudeau won First Place - Small Wall Quilts - Movable Machine Quilted (Sponsored by APQS) at AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah 2026. Quilted by Sue Foster, and using Sue Spargo's Of A Feather pattern as her design source, Louise's quilt surely makes an argument for why the express...
Artist Statement: "When I finished my first alphabet quilt, Letters From a Broad, a friend of mine asked me if the blocks I used in that quilt had anything to do with the letters they were with. I said, no, but that's a fabulous idea! I could make a quilt with traditional blocks whose names start...
Artist Statement (AQS QuiltWeek - Daytona Beach 2026): "I was inspired by a coverlet in the Victoria and Albert Museum. I enjoyed deciding the shape and placement of the flowers to get a cohesive overall design. The real fun started as the colors and fabrics were selected. I mainly worked on the ...
"Mama Don't 'Low" by Patty Simmons won The Marie White Masterpiece Award at Road to California 2026.Artist Statement: "The Jug Band vibes in this quilt cross from real to homemade instruments. Feel the rhythm and change in pitch that comes from blowing across that jug, humming into the comb and p...
"Winter Raven" by Judith Phelps was inspired by the book, Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.In the Snow Child, a child loses their red scarf, and a line from it says, "Ravens... and other wild birds had been known to snatch things." This sentence lit the creative spark in Judith to create the quilt. It wa...
"Isbjørn" by Ricki Selva won a First Place ribbon at Road to California 2026.
Artist Statement: "This bear was bored...so bored he swam out to a boat off the coast of Svalbard, Norway, where my friend, Kasey Carrothers, had been observing him. This rare and precious encounter, gave me the perfect...
"Mom Jeans" by Carolyn McKibbin won Best in Show at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "Upcycled denim was the inspiration for this quilt. I cut up 9 old pairs of jeans I wore in early motherhood, ones that were sitting in a box taking up space waiting to be donated. Being aware that much of the clo...
The Glass Ceiling is Broken but the Ladders Aren't Fixed
by Robin Thomas
The Glass Ceiling is Broken but the Ladders Aren't Fixed by Robin Thomas won First Place-Modern Quilts at AQS Daytona 26Artist Statement: "I have spent my career in a traditionally male industry and had to fight for a seat at the table that my male colleagues got by showing up. Recently I found t...
"Frances" by Jeanne Eileen Garcia won People's Choice at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "Despite my occasional eye-rolling as a child at comparisons to my mother - in likeness, tone, or attitude - I've always valued that connection, like a little echo carried in me. Hand-piecing and quilting thi...
"Tinker Toys" by Susan Braverman won Best Machine Quilting at QuiltCon 2026.QuiltCon 2026 Artist Statement: "This quilt reimagines childhood construction sets through a modern quilting lens with traditional elements like drunkard's path, rail fence, and checkerboard blocks. I combined curved and ...
"Racing Stripes" by Kelly Spell won the MQG Award of Excellence at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "My goal for this quilt was to create the illusion of motion using hand-dyed, color-to-color gradations. To achieve that effect, I used liquid Procion MX dyes in three hues: hot pink and wasabi to m...
"Parallax" by Danielle Stanfill and Rachel Orr won Best Original Modern Design at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "This collaborative piece serves as an invitation to explore the convergence of two aesthetic lenses. One, drawn to the precision of geometry and the rhythm of pattern; the other, ins...
"Midnight & Noon" by Lauren Klementz-Harte won Best Hand Quilting at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "In deep darkness we only see illuminated shapes, but inherently know there is more there. Full light uncovers what was always present, yet details still go unnoticed. Subtle minutiae that bri...
Diamond Levitation won First Place - American Patchwork & Quilting Diamonds Quilting Challenge at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "A stack of diamonds appears to float in the air channeling a flow of energy."
Techniques Used: Machine Pieced, Machine Quilted without a Frame (Longarm)
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Love Letters
by Janet Stone
Artist Statement: "Love Letters was inspired by an antique valentine that belonged to my mother-in-law. I found a chipboard alphabet set to use as a stencil for the letters. I was able to find the cotton/metallic gold fabric on the clearance rack, and I used it for the scroll part of the center h...
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My Legacy
by Lezleigh Kleibrink
My Legacy was done for Lezleigh's friend, and was created using doilies, handkerchiefs, and tea towels that were made by her friend's mother, aunts, and great aunt. These heirlooms were sitting in a drawer, whittling away and not being seen. So Lezleigh's friend handed them to her and asked if sh...
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Mom Jeans
by Carolyn McKibbin
"Mom Jeans" by Carolyn McKibbin won Best in Show at QuiltCon 2026.Artist Statement: "Upcycled denim was the inspiration for this quilt. I cut up 9 old pairs of jeans I wore in early motherhood, ones that were sitting in a box taking up space waiting to be donated. Being aware that much of the clo...
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Americana Baltimore
by Wendy J Grande
Each block was personalized with favorite ribbons, techniques and memories to create this quilt.WENDY GRANDE ---I started this quilt in a class offered by Elly Sienkiewicz to make the Clipper Ship as a large center block. Warren, my husband, was very excited and provided the inspiration for the f...
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Enjoy
by Wendy J Grande
Baltimore Album style quilt. The blocks are made as diamonds on point with birds and bouquets using Ribbon Applique techniques.The quilt "Enjoy" is the third quilt in this style that I have made - the blocks are diamond shaped with large rectangles, cut diagonally for the corners, to make the ove...
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Lepidopteran #5
by Caryl Bryer Fallert Gentry
This design was inspired by a small photo of a green moth, which Caryl had saved for many years in her inspiration file. She studied the colors and patterns of the moth, then used some of those patterns and colors to create a completely abstract design. More can be learned about this quilt at Car...
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Sarre Windmill
by Carolyn Johnson
My partner Marie and I initially exchanged several emails, and subsequently moved on to Messenger to communicate. We exchanged information on our families and about our life style and surroundings. Contact has been sporadic as we both live fairly busy lives and are involved in family businesses. ...
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La Cruz Del Sur
by Silvia Herman
My participation in the IMQE has been a wonderful and amazing experience, because I live in a country like Argentina, in which there we have no culture and less history about patchwork and quilting, to be able to participate and have the possibility that a work done by an Argentinian, and may be ...
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Garden Variety Sampler
by Janet Stone
Janet has been awarded "Master Quilter" status at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2017.
Update March 2020:
Janet's quilt, "Garden Variety Sampler," won Best of Show at the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show 2020.
Update January 2019:
Janet's quilt, "Garden Variety Sampler," won Bes...
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Wyatt Wolf
by Teresa Coates
"Wyatt Wolf" by Teresa Coates is based off of the pattern "Wolf Abstractions" by Violet Craft.Wyatt Wolf is made from Cuddle fabrics that are similar to faux fur and suede. You'll want to run your hands all over this quilt. Don't worry, he doesn't bite. Maker: Teresa Coates Quilter: NA Year...
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Ascension
by Teresa Coates
"Ascension" Teresa Coates was created in collaboration with her boyfriend.Teresa collaborated with her boyfriend, Hawke Hamilton, to make the uplifting quilt, Ascension. It's based on one of his paintings and even includes a pair of his jeans. Maker: Teresa Coates Quilter: Teresa Coates Yea...
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Bricks 'n Gears
by Claudia Pfeil
"Bricks 'n Gears" by Claudia Pfeil won Third Place - Wall Quilts: Movable Machine Quilted at AQS Quiltweek 2022.Here is a full look at Claudia Pfeil's quilt, Bricks 'n Gears. Take a look at the construction, the colors, and the quilting. All are outstanding.
Artist Statement: "In my imaginati...
